A Guide to Out of the Abyss

This guide is designed to help dungeon masters prepare and understand the Out of the Abyss adventure. You will find stats, advice, explanations and summaries of everything you need to know. Your preparation time will be greatly reduced and difficult sections of the book are sorted out for you.

This guide has grown out of the Power Score RPG blog and is in a print-friendly format.

Love this product, as I said in my review, but I had a question I was wondering if anyone out there might be able to help with. I am going to be running this game soon, and one of my players has a drow PC who has been living on the surface by wearing armor that covers her skin entirely and sticking away from large cities and such that would cause possibilities of her being found out.

Anyways, we're going into this after playing through Lost Mine of Phandelver, and I wanted to make some of the captured stuff custom for her, since she is a drow after all. Any suggestions on this front?

Also, she has a brother who abandoned her when she was young, they were both drow exiles and he lived by thievery until almost getting caught and throwing her under the bus. I was thinking about re-introducing him in this module and was hoping for suggestions on that front as well. The only ideas I have thus far is that he is also a prisoner, captured before she was, or him having returned to Menzoberanzan...See more somehow?

This guide already helped me figure out how to go about introducing another character's backstory; a gnome who's clan was slaughtered/captured by a Duergar raiding party, a backstory she had developed before we even knew we were going to Out of the Abyss. It was really awesome so thank you so much!

I ran a full 28 session campaign of Out of the Abyss for 6 players, and once again Sean has delivered an excellent guide. There is a ton of content in the source campaign book and the guide can really help sort it all out. It can also give a very nice [...]

This is absolutely a great resource and I would highly suggest it to anyone. I've been planning on sending my players into this campaign for a while now, and when I first cracked open the book the whole thing seemed entirely overwhelming. After [...]

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